Yuanyuan Manor Auto-Farm Layout for Innkeeping

Innkeeping at Yuanyuan Manor runs on crops, and in patch 1.6 the farm in Si's Painting comes with an Auto-Farmer that plants and harvests every plot in its area by itself. Your job shrinks to two things: keep the plots watered, which Sprinklers handle, and empty the Auto-Farmer's storage before it fills. This guide builds one farm that grows every Innkeeping crop in a balanced ratio and is sized so storage lasts about 8 hours between visits.

You do not need to chase maximum refined output. An inn session recovers once every 6 hours, so you will run 3 or 4 sessions a day at most, and a farm stacked with Green Touch chains produces refined crops you can never cook. Spreading plots across every crop unlocks more recipes and keeps any single item from eating the Auto-Farmer's slots.

The Layout at a Glance

The farm splits into two zones. The top is a Xiragen strip: three Gas Dispersing Units turn the area into a Xiranite environment, which is where Cabbage, Relishroom and Sourberry refine. The bottom is a sprinkler block for the six crops that never refine. The three Wuling staples go to a different farm entirely.

What the Auto-Farmer Does

The Auto-Farmer is an Endfield Industries facility that sits at the edge of the Yuanyuan Manor farm. It germinates and harvests every plot in its area and drops the harvest into Auto-Farmer Storage. You level it with Spirit Money from Innkeeping, and each level needs a matching Inn Rating.

Every slot holds up to 50 of one item. Refined Farming works only on Cabbage, Relishroom and Sourberry: a plot in its growing phase inside a Xiranite environment fills a refinement meter, and at the top the plot yields Refined Crops. Some inn dishes need Refined Crops and earn more, but refined crops never give seeds that keep their quality, so you keep growing them from normal seeds. Green Touch lets a refined plot boost the yield of touching plots of the same crop. This layout leaves Green Touch out on purpose.

To reach Inn Rating 3 you need to run the inn for a while, but nothing stops you from building this farm on day one. Buy any seeds you are missing from Pantry Keep Job Rusher in the Main Hall. Until the Auto-Farmer hits Lv.3, the Xiragen strip simply grows normal crops.

Step 1: Xiragen and Water Supply

Xiragen. The gas vent at the northern tip of Si's Painting has two High Purity nodes. Place a Gas Extractor on each for 40 Xiragen per minute in total, merge both into a single Conduit Inlet, and you will pull it out of a Conduit Outlet at the farm.

Water. East of the farm the river runs right past the fence. Place two Fluid Pumps there, connect both into a double Conduit Inlet, and the water arrives through a double Conduit Outlet at the farm.

Step 2: Build the Xiragen Strip

Blueprints cannot be placed inside the farm, so build by hand in top view. Use Sandleaf Plots as placeholders while you lay out the grid; you swap them for real crops at the end.

1. Place the Xiragen Conduit Outlet in the top-right corner of the farm.
2. Put three Sandleaf Plots in a row just below it, then copy those three plots and paste them three tiles further down.
3. In the gap between the two rows, place a Gas Dispersing Unit in the middle with a Sprinkler on each side, both facing right.
4. Copy that six-plot cluster twice to the left so the strip has three clusters.
5. Run the Xiragen line from the outlet along the top and across to the leftmost Gas Dispersing Unit. Add a pipe splitter above the middle and right units and drop a branch into each.
6. Place three Xiranite Pylons above the strip to power it.

Step 3: Build the Sprinkler Block

Move the double water outlet to the bottom-left of the farm. One water line feeds the strip's six Sprinklers through pipe splitters along the bottom edge of the strip. The second line feeds the sprinkler block below.

The sprinkler block is deliberately small: 18 plots, 3 of each crop. That is all the inn needs, and keeping the plot count down is what stops the Auto-Farmer's storage from clogging. Do not copy the block across the rest of the farm.

1. Run the second water line in from the left along the middle of the block.
2. Put four pipe splitters on that line, evenly spaced. From each splitter, run one pipe up to a Sprinkler and one down to a Sprinkler, so you get a row of four Sprinklers above the pipe and four below it.
3. Place 18 plots in three rows of six on the right side of the block: one row between the top Sprinklers and the pipe, one row between the pipe and the bottom Sprinklers, and one row under the bottom Sprinklers.
4. Add Xiranite Pylons between the Sprinkler pairs until every Sprinkler is powered.

Step 4: Plant the Crops

Now replace the Sandleaf placeholders. In the Xiragen strip, plant Cabbage, Relishroom and Sourberry, 3 plots each, and alternate them so no two plots of the same refined crop touch. Touching same-crop refined plots trigger Green Touch, which overproduces that crop and fills extra storage slots.

In the sprinkler block, plant the six crops that do not refine, 3 plots each, as in the Step 3 screenshot: Oilseed Bloom and Whitemelon in the top row, Crunchcane and Ballpea in the middle row, Matoberry and Pingtuber in the bottom row.

Auto-Farmer Slot Rules

The whole layout is sized around one constraint: when Auto-Farmer Storage is full, Auto-Harvest stops. Ripe plots then sit idle, and refined plots start turning out normal and refined versions mixed together. A clogged farm wastes the hours until your next visit.

• 24 slots, 50 per slot. That is the ceiling at Auto-Farmer Lv.4. Each crop you grow takes at least one slot, and every 50 more items of it takes another.
• 3 plots per refined crop. Three plots of Cabbage, Relishroom or Sourberry produce about 90 crops in 8 hours, which takes 2 slots each.
• No touching same-crop refined plots. Green Touch adds yield you will not cook and pushes a crop into a third slot.
• Keep the staples out. Tartpepper, Reed Rye and Amber Rice go to the Wuling farm (below), so they never compete for Si's 24 slots.

Run that way, the farm fills Auto-Farmer Storage roughly every 8 hours without clogging early. If a future patch raises the slot cap, add plots to whichever crops you run short of; the grid already has room.

Tartpepper, Reed Rye and Amber Rice

The Wuling City Agricultural Test Site, the older Wuling farm, gets its own Auto-Farmer in 1.6. It levels with Wuling Stock Bills and has separate storage, so it is the right home for the three Wuling staples. Their growth speeds differ, so use at least 4 Tartpepper plots, 2 Reed Rye and 2 Amber Rice to keep them roughly in step. For the plot and sprinkler basics of that farm, see the Wuling planting guide.

Collecting the Harvest

Auto-harvested crops stay in Auto-Farmer Storage until you move them. Open the Map, select the Auto-Farmer icon at Yuanyuan Manor and use Remote Crop Storage. That sends everything to your depot without walking to the farm, the same way you empty the Ranch. Do it every 8 hours, or before each inn session, and the farm never stalls.

To turn the harvest into Ranch feed and bottled drinks automatically, deploy the Yuanyuan Inn Items blueprint in your AIC. Pingtuber and Ballpea harvests also drop the leaves and pods that become feed, as our Yuanyuan Manor ranch guide explains. For what to cook with it all, our Yuanyuan Manor inn guide covers how Innkeeping sessions play, and the Yuanyuan inn recipes guide lists every dish each crop goes into, plus the best operator chefs for each Inn Theme. The Yuanyuan inn strategy guide shows why home-grown [A] ingredients are what make the top dishes profitable.

Method: built and checked on patch 1.6 (Sanctuary of Ink) on 2026-10-17. Auto-Farmer slot counts, the 50-item stack limit, Inn Rating gates, refinable crops and the 6-hour inn recovery come from the 1.6 game data. Crop names use the official English text.

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